Political Quotes

“I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, if you gave truth serum to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, I am pretty sure they would admit they would rather not be here today doing this. They would admit that Attorney General Merrick Garland is collateral damage in a failed effort to impeach the President of the United States. There is no honor in that, and my colleagues are, for the most part, I think, honorable people, so this is not something they want to do, but it is demanded of them nonetheless. Former President Trump has repeatedly threatened the House Republican Conference that they must impeach President Biden or else. So here we are. They found the Attorney General in contempt for providing a transcript, a full transcript and not an audio recording, of an interview from an investigation that ended up finding nothing. By the way, Mr. Speaker, the recording in question is now subject to executive privilege, so their fight is not even with the Attorney General of the United States. It is with the White House. I take some solace in the fact that many of my Republican friends and colleagues are here doing the dirty work of one individual against their will and better judgment. I know deep down, very deep down, they would rather do the honorable thing and give up this miscarriage of justice today. Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I am ready to close when the gentleman is finished, and I reserve the balance of my time.”